When you are considering your practice program, break it down into three parts to help you access your progress: YOURSELF — YOUR HORSE — BALL, RACQUET and FIELD SKILLS 1st YOURSELF: Understand basic rules Try Umpiring Try the different positions Make time to be organized Use DVDs (WATCH YOURSELF PLAY) Ask questions if you do [...]
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As the name implies, it is a combination of polo and lacrosse. It is played outside, on a field, on horseback. Each rider uses a cane stick to which is attached a racquet head with a loose net, in which the ball is caught, picked up and carried. The ball is made of sponge rubber and is approximately 4″ across. The objective is to score goals by throwing the ball between your opponent’s goal posts. Continue reading »
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We all think that the sport of polocrosse is a recent development but Polocrosse has been around a while. We started playing here in Calgary in about 1992 when a New Zealander tried out our sport of ice hockey. For anyone who is familiar with trying to learning to skate try adding learning the sport of hockey on top, we had a lot of fun at his expense. He decide to seek revenge by challenging us to a game of polocrosse. We broke every rule there was and then some that year, the local are still talking.
While many of us think of those early days as the start of a great sport, polocrosse actually has much older roots. The origins of the mother sports of polo and lacrosse are both uncertain, though estimates vary from as early as the 6th century BC and the 12th Century AD respectively. The origins of polocrosse are more clear. Continue reading »
The Polocrosse 2011 World Cup will be held in the United Kingdom at Bishop Burton College, near Beverley in East Yorkshire.The prestigious two-week event, previously held in Australia, will be held from 4th July – 18th July 2011. In conjunction with Bishop Burton College, the organizing committee has already drawn up outline plans and program mes not only for the event itself but also the “entertainment” that will be included for the thousands of people who will flock to this event from all corners of the world. The event will take place over two weekends, with many other activities and opportunities occurring in between times, to make the full two weeks an experience not to be missed for all horse, fun and sport lovers alike. Continue reading »
It’s a bit silly how many people are out there trying to “feel their horses feet”, as if it’s some kind of psychic phenomenon to be able to sense the rhythm of your horse’s footfall. The problem is that you can’t make yourself feel the movement of your horse’s legs in your mind you need to feel it in the seat of your pants. Think of it this way: when we ride we are not sitting on the legs, we are sitting on the barrel. What connects the back legs to the front legs is the barrel, so we feel the legs of the horse through the swinging of the barrel and we interpret the swinging of the barrel as we feel it through the receptivity of our hips. Therefore, the only way to know when and where your horse’s feet are is to be able to feel the rhythm of your own hips. If you can combine the intellectual or theoretical understanding of what’s happening in your horse’s spine with the feel of the physical groove of how it plays out, you can start manipulating the bend and the horse will keep on dancing right with you. Continue reading »
”Polocrosse, it’s been called the King of One Horse Sports, but not because it’s a sport reserved for Kings. For annual club dues of $125.00 commoners can play the game Alberta style in Calgary May through September. If you have ever wondered what its all about this story is for you. Like many ball games the premise is simple, throw, kick or hit a ball through your opponents goal more often than they put the ball through yours. Like many horse games, the object is to stop, turn, backup, outmaneuver and outrun the other riders on the field. Polocrosse combines all the above elements to make a fast paced exciting team sport. The game certainly is competitive but anyone who loves horses and some good natured fun with other horse people will enjoy the game just as much as the high goal scorers. Continue reading »
Polocrosse, What Is It? At the elite level polocrosse is a fast-paced, skilful, exciting game. It presents an incomparable athletic challenge involving speed, stamina, and demands lightning quick reflexes of both horse and rider.
More generally it is enjoyed at Club level as a family sport where men and women aged 10 to 70 can compete at various skill based levels of competition. Most of all it is a fun game and has been described as being a bit like hockey on horseback. The game provides good healthy outdoor competition where teamwork and cooperation are highlighted. A unique feature being that it is played at tournaments which are run over an entire weekend on a single horse. Polocrosse is an excellent way to develop your horse skills; competition is essentially a way of measuring our progress while having fun. Continue reading »